Tag: Acid–base homeostasis

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Lyme Disease is The New Syphilis

Before the advent of antibiotics, syphilis was one of the most common infections in the Western World, afflicting up to 10% of the adult populations. In 1927 Julius Wagner-Jauregg was given the first and only Nobel Prize awarded to a psychiatrist. This was for work done in 1917 in which Wagner-Jauregg had exposed three neurosyphilitic patients to malaria drawn from the blood of a wounded soldier. The resulting high fever killed the syphilis bacterium, leading to their recovery! Given that there were few cures for anything in 1917, Wagner-Jauregg’s achievement was a milestone in psychiatric and medical science. There was now a reliable, albeit risky, cure for neurosyphilis. When I went to med school there was a saying: “To know syphilis is to know medicine,” […] Read More

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New Diagnostic Paradigms

The world of medicine is changing and with it, the way we are going to be diagnosing people’s conditions. The first step toward helping ourselves and our children recover from disease and reaching our highest states of health is getting a clear diagnosis you can trust when we get sick. A few months ago, I developed a video course about the basic ways everyone can see themselves, not in terms of conceptual diagnosis but the actual physiological processes that underlie all diseases. It is one thing to give a disease a name, i.e. Cancer or Alzheimer’s and thousands of other official diagnostic labels and another thing to look at each person’s breathing rate, blood pressure, blood glucose levels, oxidative stress levels, body temperature, pH levels […] Read More